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Edward Branscomb ('95) is part of the inaugural class in their second year at the Elon University School of Law. He is also working part-time with Egerton & Associates, P.A., in Greensboro.
Susan Crotts ('06) is enjoying her position in the Housing and Community Development department for the City of Greensboro as the Contracts Manager and Reports Specialist. Much of her work involves creating data management systems for federally funded grant programs. She also is engaging the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill to help her department evaluate their involvement in homeless prevention service programs.
Stephen Diggs ('73) currently works for VistaScape Security Systems where he has led the technical aspects of the company's global expansion after being purchased by Seimens Building Technologies. This responsibility has provided him the exciting opportunity of traveling to China on more than one occasion. Stephen has moved to an area outside of Atlanta, GA in 1979 and resides there to this day.
Neal Dixon ('88) is the director of the Office of the Tax Collector for Mecklenburg County where he has worked for 12 years. Neal is also active in the North Carolina Tax Collection Association as an officer and works on legislative issues through the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners. He currently lives in Huntersville, NC.
Grant Duffield ('94) is currently the City Manager for Tega Cay, a community outside of Charlotte, NC. He has recently become a member of the Greek Alumni Board at UNCG and looks forward to becoming an active Alumni member.
Christine Franklin ('78) is a lecturer and honors professor as well as the Undergraduate Coordinator in Statistics at the University of Georgia.
Katie McCarthy Greene ('01) graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill Law School. She is currently living in Dallas, Texas, where she is an Assistant District Attorney in the criminal division at the Dallas District Attorney's Office.
April Hutchinson Harris (MPA '01) became Executive Director of Action Greensboro in January 2008, after working for the City of Greensboro, and before that, for Downtown Greensboro, Inc. She was married in 2007.
Katie Hughes ('06) served a term with the American Red Cross through the Americorps program in Charlotte, NC. Recently, she moved to Washington, DC for a job with the American Bar Association as the Project Assistant for the Death Penalty Representation Project. She plans to apply for law school in the near future.
Shaune' Langston ('99) went on to law school at Northwestern University after graduating from UNCG. She later worked for a law firm in Indiana before moving to Northern Virginia as a real estate/corporate attorney at Washington, DC's largest firm, Hogan & Hartson LLP. She resides there with her three sons and husband of 12 years.
Melissa Midgett ('01) left Senator Kay Hagan's office in the General Assembly in August to work on Treasurer Richard Moore's campaign for Governor. She's really excited about the opportunities ahead.
Bruce Oakley (MPA'02) graduated from UNCG's MPA program in 2002, and now serves as the Town Manager of Oak Ridge, NC.
Harry Paul ('05) is attending law school at Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, VA. In addition, Harry works as an intern in the Commonwealth Attorney's office in Washington County, VA.
Michael Smith ('86) is a Senior Software/Systems Engineer for an IT consultant that works for the Department of Defense. Presently, he resides in Fort Washington, MD.
Abigail Greeson Steelhammer ('91) works as an Assistant Nurse Manager for the Medical-Surgical and Intensive Care Units for Presbyterian Hospital in Huntersville, in the Lake Norman area. In addition, she is taking classes at Pfeiffer University in the MHA/MBA program. She hopes to combine her political science degree with her healthcare background to pursue a career related to health policy.
Barron Thompson ('01) taught at Eastern Guilford High School for the past five years before entering the Elon School of Law last year. He currently interns with Smith, Alexander and Morgan in Asheboro, NC. Barron lives with his wife, Emil and dog, Holly in Walkertown, NC.
Anne Tubaugh ('00 ) is the Director of Fund Development for the Red Cross in Cabarrus and Union Counties. She is also working on completing her MPA degree at UNCG.
Amanda Veazey ('06) is currently pursuing her Masters in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management at Virginia Tech.
Alumni Contributions to the Department and MPA Enrichment Funds
THANKS, ALUMNI, FOR YOUR SUPPORT
We appreciate the contributions of our alumni to our department enrichment accounts, whether the MPA Enrichment Fund, or the Political Science Enrichment Fund. We depend on these funds for student travel to conferences, lunch meetings with our advisory boards, the MPA alumni reunion, and receptions for campus speakers. Recent contributions allowed us to send MPA students to the NC City/County Managers Association annual conference, host the Congress to Campus program in March 2007, and partially fund the Washington Summer Study Session.
If you are interested in contributing to the department, please designate your gift for the Political Science Enrichment Fund or MPA Enrichment Fund during UNCG’s annual campaign, or send a check directly to:
UNCG Advancement Services,
P.O. Box 26170,
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
Please mark your gift for either the MPA Enrichment Fund or the Political Science
Enrichment Fund.
Thanks to the following alumni who contributed in 2007 to the MPA Enrichment Fund:
- Kinsey Gimble* (MPA '00)
- Natasha Nimmoms Gore (MPA '01)
- John Gribble (MPA '91)
- Karen Hays (MPA '97)
- James Hilliard* (MPA '78)
- Mary Hinshaw (MPA '96)
- Keith Lohmann* (MPA '87)
- Amanda Templeton (MPA '87)
- Clayton Voignier (MPA '04)
- Michael Weisenfeld (MPA '97)
- William Frank Willis (MPA '81)
- Joseph Wood (MPA '99)
- *Contributed for the past 3 years
Thanks to the following alumni who contributed in 2007 to the Political Science Enrichment Fund:
- Ruth DeHoog
- Thomas Little (1987)
- John O'Neal (1993)
- Justin Outling (2005)
- Jerry Pubantz
- Ricardo Rodriguez (1985)
- Eva Rub (1988)
- Willie Stafford (1988)
- Next Generation Fund for 2007
- John Bain (MPA 1975)
- Sandra Boren (MPA 2003)
- Roger Dalton (MPA 1978)
- Michael Ferris (MPA 1994)
- Natasha Nimmons Gore (MPA 2001)
- Karen Hays (MPA 1997)
- James Hilliard (MPA 1978)
- Cheryl Hopkins (MPA 2002)
- Martha Hopkins (MPA 1987)
- James Martin (MPA 1995)
- Ruth Miller (MPA 1988)
- Ellen Olson (MPA 1979)
- Blair Rankin (MPA 1983)
- Matt Reece (MPA 1993)
- Amanda Templeton (MPA '87)
- Josefa Bethea Wall (MPA 1998)
- Wesley Ward (MPA 2006)
- William Frank Willis (MPA 1981)
- Joseph Wood (MPA 1999)
- Ben Woody (MPA 2003)
- Ann Bailie Zeller (MPA 2004)
We also acknowledge the support of the following local foundations and enrichment funds that have helped undergraduate and graduate students continue their education.
• Annie Moring Alexander Scholarship Fund (undergraduate scholarships)
• Louise B. Alexander Endowment (for public affairs activities for students)
• Debbie Beatty Scholarship Fund (for public affairs activities for students)
A recent testamentary endowment for the Political Science Department has been received by a graduate of Woman’s College, Ms. Annie F. Parham (class of ’42), who served as the clerk of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners for many years. She has created an endowment to provide funds for scholarships for MPA students who plan to go into local government management as a career.